The candidate of the Frente Amplio, Ada Colau, has urged to "fill the streets" ahead of the upcoming general elections and has lashed out at the leaders of the left who, despite having a "golden tongue," afterwards "do not put their bodies" to defend rights.
Likewise, she has warned that the right will attempt to focus the campaign on "violence" and "insecurity" with the aim of fracturing the working class, and has ironized that the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, appears "nice" and talks "a lot about love" in this pre-campaign, although in management he can only showcase the measures promoted by the alternative left.
Colau has delivered this message at a rally in Móstoles, accompanied by the head of the list for Madrid, Emilio Delgado, the electoral reference of IU and number three for Madrid, Toni Valero, and the councilor of Más Madrid in the municipality, Ana Tejero. Among the attendees at the event was the comedian Ignatius Farray.
During her speech, and without referring to the disturbances in Barcelona, Colau has claimed the main social mobilizations of recent years, from the 15M, the feminist marches of 8M, and the 'No to war' campaign to the recent protests against the Palestinian genocide and the encampments in defense of the right to housing.
In addition, she has warned that the right "so lady and posh," in which she has placed the president of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso, will resort to "everything" to fracture the left, appealing to "violence and insecurity" in the streets.
As an example, she has condemned that Ayuso irresponsibly uses terms like "terrorism" and "violence" to, in reality, "disdain" those who mobilize for public education or for housing. "Refusing to protect the social majority does generate insecurity," Colau has replied.
The candidate has reproached that there are many politicians, both from the right and the left, with a "golden tongue," and has asked "who puts their body" when it comes to defending a health center, stopping an eviction, or supporting public schools.
Therefore, she has demanded from these officials "less words and more putting the body," and has called again to "fill the streets" against elites who, she has denounced, want them "resigned, depressed" and willing to believe the polls that predict the victory of the right.
It has also directed its criticisms at the PSOE, stating that when it governs alone, it only manages inequality, but "never" confronts its causes nor stands up to speculators, something that, it has recalled, it verified when it shared the municipal government of Barcelona with the socialists.
Let's see if Sánchez says he is proud of any PSOE minister
Colau has reiterated that Sánchez strives to project a friendly image in interviews, although when asked to detail his government action, he only mentions the increase in the minimum wage, the labor reform, or the housing decrees that, he has said, were "forced" upon him, while Maricarmen, the elderly woman who died after being evicted in Madrid, "gave her life" for those measures.
In this context, he joked that he would like the president of the Government to express that he is "proud" of measures promoted by socialist ministers at some point.
Delgado mocks Feijóo
For his part, Emilio Delgado has encouraged the membership by recalling that Frente Amplio has increased its voting intention by 17% and has ridiculed the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of whom he said that "he is not the sharpest pencil in the case" and has become an "unexpected ally" by getting "into all the puddles" talking about cuts in pensions or the right to abortion.
"Even his worst enemy wouldn't give him this roadmap," he emphasized, before stressing that in these elections the "oldest battle in the world" is being fought, that of the redistribution of wealth, as reflected in the protests in Albania, France, Portugal, or the second round of the presidential elections in Madrid.
Consequently, he has stated that he does not exaggerate when he claims that in these elections "democracy" is at stake and that if Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, reach the Moncloa, those who will really be in charge will be "the banks," the large companies of the Ibex, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, or the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Frente Amplio will be the key to the Government
Toni Valero has defended that Frente Amplio represents the left that "is not afraid to govern" and that is willing to "swallow as many contradictions as necessary" to apply leftist policies for the benefit of the social majority.
For this reason, it has claimed that the "useful vote" in the progressive bloc is that of this candidacy, which aims to become the "key" to the next Government, with the commitment to "fry speculators" of housing with taxes and expropriate apartments from "vulture funds".